Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

The longest-serving female ruler in Russian history and one of the most significant ... his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, ...